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Prof Musa W. Dube named for Ann Reskovac Courage Award

The Board of Directors and President H. Sharon of Scarritt Bennett Center have named Professor Musa W. Dube of TRS Department as the 2009 recepient of the Ann Reskovac Courage Award.  The letter offer to Prof Dube points out that, “The Board of Directors and President Howell and all of us here at the Center are so proud of the work that you have been doing.  We will be honoring you at the dinner on November 20th 2009. We hope you will be able to attend and receive the award in person.” 

Scarritt Bennett Center was initially founded in Kansas City, Missouri; the school was established for the purpose of training young women missionaries. It moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1924, where it became Scarritt College for Christian Workers.  In 1988, when the college closed, the Women’s Division of the United Methodist Church purchased the buildings and grounds, and it became Scarritt-Bennett Center, under the direction of the SBC Board.  It was re-organized as a non-profit conference, retreat and educational center, committed to empowerment through cross-cultural understanding, education, creativity and spiritual renewal.   The Centre offers a variety of programs addressing eradication of racism, empowerment of women, and spiritual education.  In addition, the Centre seeks to work for justice and reconciliation from a global perspective.

Professor W. Dube, the 2009 recipient of the Ann Reskovac Courage Award, is an outstanding international scholar who has done ground breaking work in her scholarship by articulating postcolonial feminist, divination, storytelling and HIV&AIDS biblical hermeneutics.  Through her postcolonial feminist perspective, Professor Dube pressed biblical feminist scholars to address both colonial and patriarchal oppression in their scholarship.  In the African theological scholarship, professor Dube laid the ground for curriculum transformation in the context of HIV&AIDS by producing key literature, articulating an HIV&AIDS theology and training other scholars on mainstreaming HIV&AIDS in the curriculum.  Prof Dube has been recognized by the University of Botswana and regionally. In 1999, the University of Botswana recognized the work of Professor Dube by promoting her to the position of senior lecturer on the basis of exceptional performance.  In 2006, she was named Professor Extraordinary of Stellenbosch University, Department of Theology. The 2007, GPPC Awards lauded her with two awards: GPPC Award Winner for Contribution to Gender Issues at International Level and the GPPC Research Award Winner.  In 2008, Prof Dube was promoted to a professorial position, becoming the first Motswana woman professor in the Faculty of Humanities.